Top girls play analysis8/18/2023 ( I reviewed her last film, “Friends With Kids.”) Westfeldt’s appearance also increases the odds of her longtime boyfriend Jon Hamm appearing on “Girls” down the road, whether as a cruel media titan who makes Hannah feel bad about herself, or as the Patrick Wilson type in a quasi-sequel to “One Man’s Trash.”Īnd for a while, Hannah has success stepping outside her comfort zone, too, as she tries to play family therapist for Adam and Caroline. (**) Played by Jennifer Westfeldt, who’s carved out her own career as writer, director and star of a series of small stories about life in New York. Often in work settings, we’ve seen her get into trouble by talking too much here, she makes that part of her own marketing hook, and the enthusiastic editor laps it up. We see in the meeting with the new publisher how she can be charming and sociable, but mainly when she’s in her element and pursuing a goal she cares about. And note that in the phone call with her dad, she completely ignores his reference to having “a small procedure.” At times, it’s an incredibly tunnel-visioned Hannah Horvath kind of episode. It’s a mortifying, hide under the couch kind of scene, but it also feels like exactly the sort of thing Hannah would try to do, and it pays off when the new publisher loves her enough to want to publish it as a physical book – or, at least, it does until Hannah finds out that her contract with David’s company prohibits that. At David’s memorial, Hannah’s surprised to discover he had a wife(**), then makes the wildly inappropriate but professionally expedient move of asking her to recommend another publisher who might be willing to publish her memoir. I don’t know how long this fling is going to last, but I can predict one thing: Marnie will lose all interest the moment Ray actually seems to like her.Įven with that amusing diversion, this is mainly an episode about Hannah, Adam and Caroline, and it’s a doozy. But the fact that he’s a guy not sucking up to her about her beauty or her singing voice winds up being a turn-on. She goes to Ray for a blunt assessment of what’s wrong with her, and is of course defensive and offended when he gives her exactly that. But it also fits a Marnie Michaels pattern of only wanting men who aren’t interested in her. That Marnie falls into bed with Ray on one level feels like one of those things veteran TV shows do when they have two unattached characters without an obvious storyline for either. (*) Jessa and Shoshana essentially cameo here, though Jessa’s plan to work in a children ‘s clothing boutique doesn’t seem likely to fix the many things wrong with her life at this point. “Only Child” finds the women – well, mainly Marnie and Hannah(*) – trying to break bad behavioral patterns, but inevitably they wind up making the same mistakes as always. And Hannah has to deal with both the stress of having both Sackler siblings under her roof, and of David’s death apparently killing her ebook. Shoshana has thrown herself so utterly into sexual adventure that her grades are suffering. Marnie got dumped by Charlie, is publicly humiliated because of her YouTube video, and walked away from her job at Ray’s coffee shop. Jessa got kicked out of rehab, and the universe is consistently calling her on her crap. Though Hannah and Adam are doing well as a couple, for the most part the four title characters are in some lousy places. This has been a very funny season of “Girls” so far, but in some ways it’s actually been darker than the more dramatic second season. A review of tonight’s “Girls” coming up just as soon as I’ve locked eyes with Michiko Kakutani…
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